On the kbin.pub. It said:
It can communicate with many other ActivityPub services, including Mastodon, Lemmy, Pleroma, Peertube.
I thought Mastodon (and maybe other federative platforms) are very different from kbin, in terms of the intended uses and functionalities. How do I interact with it?
When I make a thread on /m/kbin, what does it do on Mastodon?
Some updates. Apparently, making a thread in kbin will make a post on Mastodon, but not immediately. Here is the main page of my account on Mastodon (mastodon.social): https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]
Under Posts tab, you will see this particular thread(https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/110717469552820707) and its replies. In contrast to my initial thought, posts on kbin seems to be ignored by Mastodon since I did not see my posts on my main page there.
On the other hand, Posts from Mastodon is transferred to posts (microblog) in seemingly arbitrary magazine on kbin, and again, not immediately.
Here’s an example of a post from Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@jensorensen/110719419446130679
Here’s what it became on kbin: https://kbin.social/m/internet/p/859696/Latest-comic-Pick-your-social-network-socialmedia-internet-tech-authoritarianism
If you dig a bit in that account, you’ll see her posts are posted in different magazines, which is weird since there is no magazine equivalent in Mastodon. I’m guessing it’s on kbin’s side that does this transformation, probably with the help of hashtag?
Also, posts that’s too old will not be transferred. I did not find this post on kbin: https://mastodon.social/@jensorensen/110204027397694156 . Based on the time when it’s posted, it’s somewhere between April 16 and April 23.
Pretty sure iirc the microblog sections just looks for tags. The magazine owner specifies a bunch of tags it should search for and the magazine fetches any posts with the specified tags and displays them in the microblog section. So that’s why it looks like it’s put in arbitrary magazines, because any magazine looking for the same tag can get the same post.
That is my guess, too. But I don’t own a magazine so I didn’t know if it’s true.
The confirmation is helpful.
But if that’s really the case, what will happen when there are several magazines fetch the same tags? Predictably, they just shown on all said magazines, but what about OP’s profile? As far as I’m concernd, you cannot create a post in several magazines simultaneously.
Can you open any of those mastodon links in mastodon yourself? They all open in kbin for me (as do any other mastodon, at least mastodon.social, links), wonder if that’s just me or other people as well.
Link to my profile and thread redirect to the one on kbin. Probably because they both originated from here. But the post from Mastodon does direct to the mastodon.social.
The only way to see this thread and my profile on Mastodon is go to an Mastodon instance, search my name CarrieForle, and see it there.